Make Your Own Remote Control LED Light
Want to control the colors in your home? Sure, you could just buy a Philips Hue bulb, but where’s the hacking fun in that? [Dario] agrees: he has written a tutorial on building an Arduino-controlled RGB light system that plugs into a standard light socket.
[Dario] is using a bulb from Automethion in Italy, an Arduino, and an ESP8288 shield that sends signals to the bulb. The Arduino and shield are running the Souliss framework that provides smart home features and runs on a number of platforms, so it is a good open platform for creating your own smart home apps, and would be easy to expand. We have also seen a few other projects that use the ESP8288 to control an RGB strip, but this is the first one that uses a bulb that plugs into a standard light socket.
At the moment, Automethion is the only company selling this light, but I hope that others will sell similar products soon.
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